Between 1560 and 1700, it is believed that as many as 1,000 people (mostly women) were executed for Witchcraft across the UK. Here are five of the worst witch trials from around the British Isles.

The Hammer of Witches (as it was known in English) became a bestseller ... A person with warts was at risk of being branded a witch Women with prominent warts or moles were thought to have ...

Four women and one man were hanged at the Abington gallows for ... In the shadow of Pendle Hill, Lancashire, one of the most infamous British witch hunts, would set a dangerous precedent in the legal ...

An illustration of the trial of George Jacobs, who was hanged during the Salem witch trials in 1692 ... Two Canadian women have been charged with pretending to practise witchcraft, breaking ...

Over the next two hundred years, thousands of people (mostly women) were put to death for the crime ... But a number of beliefs peculiar to this island also come to light, notably the English witch’s ...

While 16th- and 17th-century English pamphleteers portrayed those accused of witchcraft as impoverished and elderly, court records suggest that it was just as likely to be powerful women who stood ...